Did you see it last night on Alias too?

[tmasman]

I'll admit it... I'm adicted to watching Alias... Jennifer Garner is just HOT!
Anyhow...
Marshal was remote controlling this stupid 2" little "cloaked" car thing around, (the car thing isn't important though...).
When it actually showed him controlling the car, he was hitting buttons on what looked like a 2-player X-Arcade!!!

2 cheap black joysticks, black buttons, 2 white player buttons, & a button on the side of the box (pinball). It never really showed a good view of it, just enough to see what I mentioned.  You could also hear the clicking of the buttons very loudly (another reason I think it was an X-Arcade) .

I just think it's funny that since I've gotten into this hobby, different thoughts go through my head as I see things like this...  Like when I saw it, my first thoughts were "Oh cool, I can post this on BYOAC"... Then I thought "Wait, he'd need an analog stick to control that car... Whatever!"...

Ug...

Very interesting... Well... sort of anyways...
Anybody else catch it?
Anybody record or Tivo it? Can you upload a pic? (I think I recorded it... Maybe I'll try getting a shot of it later...)

~ tmasman

[Lumpy]

Yep.... saw it to.  I was just about to say something to the wife....but then I remembered.....she just wouldn't understand.  

[JamIt]

Saw it as well (IMO Garner isn't that hot)
Anyway, saw the scene and for a minute I thought the joystick had a metallic look to it.  It might have just been screen glare (or my overimaginative mind), but can you say SlikStik?
--JamIt

[Bill_S]

I saw it and couldn't stop laughing.  I thought it looked like an X-Arcade, too.
He sure was hitting those buttons a lot  

[tmasman]

I was trying to figure out what would require him to be constantly hitting the buttons, but at the time he was just driving around... eh...

[Frostillicus]

heh - it's called acting.  These are _actors_ - the director probably said: "you are controlling a techincally sophisticated piece of hardware with that, so look intense! ACTION!"

It's along the same lines of showing people in movies typing - they either are just rythmically bashing the keys, or the sound effects are added post-production - either way looks weird.  Then there's the big sign on the screen that says either  "DOWNLOADING VIRUS TO DISK" or "PASSWORD ACCEPTED"...just like in real life  .

[Luxury]

i noticed it and said something about it to my girlfriend - something along the lines of "he would never use that joystick to control that car.  Those are digital joysticks and would be way to hard to control it".  Then i had to follow it up with "dont ask me how i know that".  

[Grasshopper]

Is it just me or do others here also find the plot of Alias totally incomprehensible?

Even the first episode confused me. She joins what she thinks is the CIA but it actually turns out to be another organisation pretending to be the CIA! Eh? And then it turns out that her dad also belongs to the same organisation but he's a double agent or something. My head was spinning! And if you miss an episode you've had it.

However I agree that Jennifer Garner is HOT and it's worth watching Alias for that reason alone.

It's a shame that Tarantino didn't give her the lead role in Kill Bill (IMHO). I thought the kung fu she did in Daredevil looked pretty authentic, certainly more convincing than the over the top stuff you see in films like The Matrix.

[Luxury]

Is it just me or do others here also find the plot of Alias totally incomprehensible?

i wouldn't say "incomprehensible" so much as "rediculously stupid".  The show is so unbelievable, but they take everything so matter-of-fact like.  its great in that way.  its a fun show to watch, but dont EVER give any serious thought to the plotline.  

[1UP]

Didn't see it.  I have a hard time watching any show that continues the myth that you can take a 5x5 pixel image from a security cam, blow it up and enhance it to crystal clarity.  It worked in Blade Runner, because it was supposed to be an encoded holographic photo, but it doesn't make sense in any of these supposedly modern day spy shows.  Anyone who has used Photoshop will tell you it doesn't work that way...